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This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The … theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to … test the theoretical propositions, the authors analyze the effect of foreign aid dependence on ex-ante risk …
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of the donor’s behavior. Since all aid is not motivated by the same reasons, the evaluation of the donor country …’s behavior requires a second step accounting for the type and the channel of aid provided. Using data on international disaster …
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This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant...
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This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...
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